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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Boats frequently left ____________ for Florida and the Indians would wait for them.
(a) Oranjestad.
(b) Havana.
(c) St. George's.
(d) Nassau.

2. Both blacks and Indians had been given freedom and citizenship by Spanish Florida causing problems between Spanish and ___________ America that would continue for more than one hundred years.
(a) Portuguese.
(b) Mexican.
(c) French.
(d) English.

3. The area receives an average of ________________ inches of rainfall per year.
(a) Sixty-five.
(b) Fifty-five.
(c) Forty-five.
(d) Thirty-five.

4. Miami and nearby areas _______________ in the years following the Depression.
(a) Withered.
(b) Were severely altered.
(c) Were destroyed.
(d) Prospered.

5. Mail delivery developed slowly first by foot, and then by wagon and ____________.
(a) Stagecoach.
(b) Bus.
(c) Train.
(d) Boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first to reach Florida?

2. What were there many of in Miami at this time?

3. The man who dredged the first canal purchased four ___________ acres of swamp land west of Lake Okeechobee.

4. The Indians who settled in Florida came from west of the Mississippi and spoke what language?

5. How long does the rain last?

(see the answer key)

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